Yesterday, I sat through a keynote speech. The speaker was the Teacher of the Year winner for the state that I live in. Part of the reason this teacher won the award was because of the impact she had on her students. The speaker spoke about how she teaches through having her students build or create things.
Some of the teachers students have created pdocasts, movies, and original songs.
The speaker mentioned that it is through creation that her students get a deeper level of education. This ideology has really resonated with me since, yesterday.
I have read a lot of instructions and how to documents but until I started cutting wood nailing and gluing I did not truly understand how woodworking works.
The world needs more builders and tinkers and we need and can appreciate a deeper education. Build something today you will be glad you did and so will the world.
The Corrigan Encore 
So true! Great reminder. My granddad was a master carpenter. He could build anything – and he did, including his own home and all the woodworking & cabinets in it. But also he spent great care on building little chachkies and such, a few of which I’m privileged to own now.
I don’t do too much with wood, I’m more of a car tinkerer…doing as much of my own maintenance work as possible. I did a full brake job (pads & rotors) earlier this week. He always paid for his auto work. No doubt he could’ve done it, he would just rather work with wood.
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